1965 in literature

See also: 1964 in literature, other events of 1965, 1966 in literature, list of years in literature.

New Books

• Hotel - Arthur Hailey
• The Looking-Glass War - John le Carré
• The Man With The Golden Gun - Ian Fleming
• The Source - James A. Michener
• Up the Down Staircase - Bel Kaufman
• Herzog - Saul Bellow
• The Green Berets - Robin Moore
• Those Who Love - Irving Stone
• Markings - Dag Hammarskjold
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley & Malcolm X
• Dune - Frank Herbert

Births

• July 31 - Joanne Kathleen Rowling, author

Deaths

• January 4 - T. S. Eliot, American/British poet
• January 12 - Lorraine Hansberry, writer
• December 16 - William Somerset Maugham

Awards

• Nobel Prize for literature - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Shirley Ann Grau - The Keepers Of The House
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Berryman: 77 Dream Songs